On Wednesday, the DFB announced the kick-off times for the first round of matches in the 2022/23 DFB-Pokal. Mainz’s first competitive fixture of the new season will see them travel to face Erzgebirge Aue, who were recently relegated from Bundesliga 2, on Sunday, 31st July at 18:00 CEST. 

Urs Fischer’s team started pre-season fixtures with a 3-1 win over Viktoria Berlin on Wednesday. A first-half double from Sven Michel gave Union a dominant lead going into the break. Andreas Voglsammer hit one after half-time before Viktoria pulled one back through Umur Durmurshan. It was a good exercise for the Bundesliga side with three U19s appearing – Yannic Stein, Malick Sanogo and Aljosha Kemlein. New signings Danilo Doekhi, Milos Pantovic, Tim Skarke and Paul Seguin were given appearance time at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark.

Having already confirmed their first friendly of the winter break against Danish top-flight side FC Nordsjælland on 10 December, the Wolves have now arranged another match. On 17 December, head coach Niko Kovac will take his team to London to gain further match practice against Brentford. The Green-and-Whites previously crossed swords with the English club in summer pre-season, winning 4-0 at the AOK Stadion. Up until the World Cup break, the Bees had collected 29 points in the Premier League and occupy 10th place in the table after 15 matches.

Arteta believes that Arsenal had enough chances to have won the game. He explained (via Sky Sports): “Yes, especially with the big chances that we created.

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The 33,305 fans inside the MEWA ARENA were treated to a thrilling finale as Werder snatched a point with the last kick of the game. Werder scored twice for the second away match running and showed bags of character as they look to secure their Bundesliga status. Here is all the reaction from the game:

The international break is over and it’s time for Bundesliga action again. This Saturday afternoon (kick-.off 15:30 CET), VfL Bochum 1848 will be guests at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim. In the run-up to the match in South Germany, head coach Thomas Reis as well as director of football, Sebastian Schindzielorz answered the journalists’ questions at the press conference.

Beljo, who scored his first competitive goal for Augsburg in the 2-1 victory over Werder Bremen, is up against FC Bayern’s Matthijs de Ligt and FC Schalke’s Henning Matriciani after the three players accumulated the most points of all league “rookies” in the DFL’s Fantasy Manager game.

Inter defender Stefan de Vrij, however, believes that a clash between the two teams shouldn’t be thrown away. The Dutchman thinks that it is an important fixture and that it should be approached with a mindset of wanting all three points.